Career
He was assassinated in 1991. DHKP/C member Necmi Suma was sentenced to 12 years for his murder. In 2011 Colonel Arif Doğan claimed that the Turkish Gendarmerie"s Cem Ersever had ordered Selen"s assassination.
Selen graduated from the Turkish Military Academy in 1954 and the Turkish Military College in 1970.
He retired at his own request on 15 July 1989.